Why use of interventions targeting outdoor biting mosquitoes will be necessary to achieve malaria elimination [PDF]
, 2012 By definition, elimination of malaria means permanent reduction to zero of locally incidence of infections. Achieving this goal among other reasons, it requires fully understanding on where and when persons are most exposed to malaria vectors as these ...
Ferguson, H., Govella, N.J.
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Feasibility of malaria elimination
The Lancet, 2011 638 www.thelancet.com Vol 377 February 19, 2011 who need them do not get them. By combining several interventions together and optimising their timing, coverage, and style of delivery, large reductions in malaria can be achieved and elimination can become a realistic goal in some areas.
Maude, R, White, N, White, L
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High Effective Coverage of Vector Control Interventions in Children After Achieving Low Malaria Transmission in Zanzibar, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 \ud \ud Formerly a high malaria transmission area, Zanzibar is now targeting malaria elimination. A major challenge is to avoid resurgence of malaria, the success of which includes maintaining high effective coverage of vector control interventions such ...
A Bennett +49 more
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Is malaria elimination a distant dream? Reconsidering malaria elimination strategies in Zimbabwe
Public Health in Practice, 2021 Malaria remains a public health problem decimating vulnerable populace especially in resource-constrained areas in Zimbabwe. Significant progress towards malaria elimination has beenik made in the previous decades through intensified and improved malaria control measures such as indoor residual spraying (IRS), distribution of long-lasting insecticidal ...
Elliot Mbunge +3 more
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Malaria Journal, 2023 Background Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that is one of the most serious public health issues globally and a leading cause of mortality in many developing countries worldwide. Knowing the prevalence of both symptomatic and asymptomatic malaria on a
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Establishment of the Ivermectin Research for Malaria Elimination Network: updating the research agenda. [PDF]
, 2015 The potential use of ivermectin as an additional vector control tool is receiving increased attention from the malaria elimination community, driven by the increased importance of outdoor/residual malaria transmission and the threat of insecticide ...
Bassat, Quique +10 more
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Malaria Policy Advisory Committee to the WHO: conclusions and recommendations of eighth biannual meeting (September 2015). [PDF]
, 2016 The Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) to the World Health Organization held its eighth meeting in Geneva, Switzerland from 16 to 18 September 2015.
WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and Secretariat
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Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Prospectus on Malaria Elimination [PDF]
, 2009 \ud Thirty-nine countries across the world are making progress toward malaria elimination. Some are committed to nationwide elimination, while others are pursuing spatially progressive elimination within their borders.
Feachem, Richard G.A. +2 more
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Submicroscopic carriage of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax in a low endemic area in Ethiopia where no parasitaemia was detected by microscopy or rapid diagnostic test. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Motivated by the success in malaria control that was documented over the last decade Ethiopia is aiming at malaria elimination by 2020 in selected districts.
Baidjoe, Amrish +9 more
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Operational research on malaria control and elimination: a review of projects published between 2008 and 2013. [PDF]
, 2014 A literature review for operational research on malaria control and elimination was conducted using the term 'malaria' and the definition of operational research (OR).
Cibulskis, Richard E +6 more
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